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I decided to combine two of my favorite photos. The first one being, a black and white of bottles in an old wooden crate and another favorite of a mine, an adorable duckling. Together with these two photos and layers, cropping, cut & paste, contrast and a lot on imagination I came up with this photo. I hope you enjoy.My imagination was thinking about three adorable ducklings going on an adventure and they getting into mischief.

Software used: PhotoShop Elements 6, layers

• Ribbons Won*
  – Won 1st Place in “Dixon May Fair” Dixon, CA
  (5/11)
  – Won 1st Place in “Lightwriter Photo” Contest located in Vacaville CA (3-19-11)

Won or Placed Challenges in Redbubble-Top Ten Winner – 5Cs Members Best Digital Creation Challenge(2-4-12)-Top ten in “Dash of Color” (2/12)- Top Ten Winner – “Aniomal Fantasy and Whimpsy” (1-26-12)- Top Ten Winner – 5Cs Members Best Layered Compilation Challenge (1-25-12)- Top Ten Winner – Zinger Group Zinger avitar challenge.(1-20-12)-WON 1st Place in Youig Softy Challenge of “New Year Quick Challenge for Calendar Cover Images!” (1-1-12)-WON 1st Place in Digital Art at its Best"-Placed in the Top Ten of the “Live, Love and Dream” in the “Glass Bottles” Challenge(9-20-11)- WON 1st Place in “Altered by Imagination” Group in “The most Appreciated piece”Challenge (8-2-11)-WON 1st Place in the “Hosting Tutorial Class” Group “Blends – Layering of at least two images.” Challenge. (3-24-11)-Placed 2nd in “Peace, Love & Tranquility” Group in the “Duck, Duck, Goose” Challenge (10-17-11)- Placed 2nd in “If I could talk to the animals” Challenge in the “Digital Art Compilations” Group (8-23-11)-Placed 2nd in “Digital Art Compilations” Group in the “September Avatar” Challenge (8-27-11)-Placed 4th Place in “Photo Manipulator” Group in “…A time of magic” Contest (3-16-11)- Placed 4th Place in “This and That” Group in the Bottle Challenge (7-30-11)-Placed 5th place in “Layered Lovers” challenge in “Live Love Dream” Group (3-20-11)-Placed 5th Place in “Creative, Talented & Unknown” Group in the August Avatar Challenge. (7-30-11)

-Placed 7th in “Digital Art – At its best” Group in the “Your Best Representational Digital Art” Challenge (8-15-11)
-Placed 10th Place in “The Goofy House” Group in the "The First Challenge. (8-15-11)
-Placed Top Ten in the “Color Splash” Group (10-2-11)

Special Recognition-This work is an RB Homepage Feature Submission, selected by “You Big Softy” Group (3-8-11)

-This work is an RB Homepage Feature Submission, selected by “You Big Softy” Group (1-1-12)

Featured In 11 Groups
-“Digital Art at its Best” (1-21-12)
-“Art Universe” Outstanding Daily Feature(12-11-11)
-“Addicted Photographer” (9-25-11)
-“The Goofy House” Group (8-21-11)
-“This and That” Group (7-31-11)
-The “ImageWriting 2/24” Group" (7-30-11)
– “Alphabet Soup” Group (7-30-11)
-“The Challenge Corner” Group (4-5-11)
-“Beautiful Blends” Group. (4-3-11)
– “Tell You Photo Story” Group (3-24-11)
-" The World As We See It , or as we missed it." (3-7-11)